FESTIVAL KUNSTNERE / FESTIVAL ARTISTS

RONNY BANK

My artistic statement:

I sometimes get the question "Why do you paint Mickey Mouse & Batman?"

And my answer is this…

I do not work with neither Mickey Mouse, the Phantom, Batman or any of the other known cartoon characters, but with the meaning the comics had on me throughout my childhood. What kind of influence did this have on me as a child? What significance do they still have on me?

I caricature, parody and portray characters, stories and own memories from my own childhood. Toying and playing around with emotions that is still in me! Forgotten memories that emerge again!? The fantasies I used to play around with… is it still in me?

But perhaps most importantly - what remains of me, the original me, from that time. Am I still a child? Ore have I grown up?

Just think of how important this, the comics, has been to people! That even now, 50 years after his death, Walt Disney is perhaps the foremost symbol of American culture, and it would have been difficult to imagine a world without what he and others with him created.

“Good artists copy, Great artists steal”

It means you may not be the first to try something, but you did it so well that everyone thinks of you when they see that thing. Like Picasso, Liechtenstein, Monet, Van Gogh…they may have started out coping someone else, but in the end they completely stole it.

Ronny Bank

SVERRE ØKSHOFF

Jeg heter Sverre Økshoff. Jeg er maler, Steinerpedagog og gitarist i bandet Seigmen.

Jeg har jobbet med bildende kunst siden 1988-89.

Jeg har vært innom mange sjangre, men siden jeg studerte på Steinerhøyskolen (2003-2006) har jeg lagt all energi i å male store akvareller. Det har vært en lidenskap for meg og mange kvelder, netter og fridager går med til å tenke, leke med ideer og male. Jeg har noen strenge regler for meg selv og uttrykket, men temaene kan variere sterkt mellom et mildt poetisk uttrykk til mer eksplisitte ord og vendinger.

Det blir mye selvbiogragfisk. Jeg finner et tema og magefølelsen forteller meg om jeg brenner for det eller om jeg skal kaste det og gå videre. Det er veldig kort vei mellom bruk og kast.

Bildene mine trenger også en viss karantene før jeg godkjenner dem og stiller dem ut.

Sverre Økshoff

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